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Scott Smith
scott at roadtoad.net
Fri Aug 1 18:27:27 CDT 2003
Let me make sure I am reading this correctly: Basically you are stating
that we should base some arbitrary amount of the quality of a piece of
software on how well its users keep up-to-date in terms of patches.....?
Scott
Garrett Goebel wrote:
> Just because someone announces a patch doesn't mean it gets instantly
> applied. How many Microsoft shops have applied all the current and
> applicable patches to all their machines? Not even Microsoft. What of
> all the default installs of Sendmail from all those UNIX distributions
> sitting blissfully ignored and unpatched over the years by neglectful
> admins? And I wonder... if Sendmail servers are supposedly responsible
> for >50% of all net email traffic... what proportion of it is spam?
> And how does it compare to other MTA's?
>
> Somehow "its their own fault" doesn't quite cut the mustard ;)
>
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